KULTURA ROMA KAO RESURS I OGRANIČENJE ZA SOCIO-KULTURNU I EKONOMSKU INTEGRACIJU ROMA U SRBIJI
ROMA CULTURE AS A RESOURCE AND A LIMITATION FOR SOCIO-CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC INTEGRATION OF ROMA IN SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: This work in­ter­di­sci­pli­nary exa­mi­nes the cul­tu­re of Ro­ma with spe­cial focus to the si­tu­a­tion and cha­rac­te­ri­stics of Ro­ma po­pu­la­tion in Ser­bia at the begin­ning of the 21st cen­tury. The con­cept of cul­tu­re is de­ri­ved from an­thro­po­lo­gical per­spec­ti­ve of Ame­ri­can an­thro­po­lo­gists of neo-evo­lu­ti­o­nist ori­en­ta­tion. The star­ting hypot­he­sis of the work is that the Ro­ma ori­gi­na­te from In­dia, in which they for­med a ho­mo­ge­ne­o­us so­cio-cul­tu­ral gro­up, and that the Hin­du re­li­gion and ca­ste struc­tu­re of so­ci­ety had gre­atly in­flu­en­ced the cre­a­tion of the cul­tu­ral co­re of the Ro­ma, ma­ni­fe­sted in what is cal­led the Ro­ma­ni­ans (Ro­ma­ni­pe). Hi­stori­cal and sta­ti­sti­cal da­ta show the hi­sto­ri­cal and pre­sent so­cio-cul­tu­ral sta­tus of Ro­ma in Ser­bia, as well as the­ir most im­por­tant cul­tu­ral pat­terns. In the se­cond part of the ar­tic­le, the hypot­he­sis is de­fen­ded that the cul­tu­ral pat­terns of Ro­ma in Ser­bia re­pre­sent a di­a­lec­tic pro­duct of the in­he­ri­ted cul­tu­ral co­re and daily ra­ti­o­nal adjust­ment to the real ex­ter­nal cir­cum­stan­ces of the Ro­ma. This pa­per pre­sents the ba­sis for furt­her the­o­re­ti­cal and em­pi­ri­cal re­se­arch of the po­si­tion of Ro­ma in Ser­bia. In ad­di­tion, it can al­so ser­ve to cre­a­te fu­tu­re prac­ti­cal po­lici­es, which wo­uld ta­ke gre­a­ter ac­co­unt of a very com­plex re­la­ti­on­ship bet­we­en fac­tors af­fec­ting the si­tu­a­tion and cul­tu­re of Ro­ma.

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